Re: Python dependency when building

[Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org>]

Hilmar,

Can you please upload the repository to Salsa?  That will make it 
easier to figure out what is going on.

On Wednesday, April 16, 2025 5:07:46 AM Mountain Standard Time Hilmar 
Preusse wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I hope this question is easy to answer, maybe I'm on the wrong list.
> 
> The lintian report for package asymptote-x11 says:
> 
> E: asymptote-x11: python3-script-but-no-python3-dep python3 (does
> not satisfy python3:any | python3-minimal:any)
> [usr/share/asymptote/GUI/xasy.py] N:
> <snip>
> N:
> N:   If you are using debhelper, adding ${python3:Depends} to the
> Depends field N:   and ensuring dh_python3 is run during the build
> should take care of adding N:   the correct dependency.
> N:
> 
> The debian/control of the source package reads:
> 
> Package: asymptote-x11
> Architecture: all
> Depends: ${misc:Depends},
>          ${python3:Depends},
>          asymptote (>= ${binary:Version}),
>          <snip>
> 
> and the d/rules uses the dh sequencer: dh $@ --with python3
> 
> Looking at the build log I see that dh_python3 is called,
> nevertheless dpkg-gencontrol reports:
> 
> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: Depends field of package asymptote-x11:
> substitution variable ${python3:Depends} used, but is not defined.
> 
> The python related BD's of the source package are dh-python &
> python3. I replaced the "#!/usr/bin/env python3" shebang in the
> script by "#!/usr/bin/python3", but this did not solve the issue.
> 
> What am I missing? Many thanks!
> 
> Hilmar


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Soren Stoutner
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